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Definition of Picaros
1. picaro [n] - See also: picaro
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picaros
Literary usage of Picaros
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"picaros IN THE ORIENT high rank as the gallows could exalt them to. ... picaros in
the Orient Byron, whose success in verse drove Scott into novel-writing, ..."
2. History of Spanish literature by George Ticknor, Ticknor, George, 1791-1871 (1849)
"... or the gayer one of picaros. The first instance of a fiction founded on this
state of things was, as we have already seen, the " Lazarillo de Tonnes" of ..."
3. Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (1905)
"... (novela de picaros), by HB Clarke.—Boccaccio, by WP Ker. SWINBURNE, Algernon
Charles. Studies in prose and poetry. 1894 804 S97 Partial contents: The ..."
4. Life of Tobias George Smollett by David Hannay (1887)
"The mention of Spanish authors in the preface to "Roderick Random" shows that he
at least knew of the works of the writers of novelas de picaros. ..."
5. Touring in 1600: A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education by Ernest Stuart Bates (1911)
"There were, too, picaros of high degree, but these were all men of war, whereas
nothing but hunger made an ordinary picaro fight. High and low, however, ..."
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